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My husband and I spent a week at Binniguenda March/April. It was fantastic! It is not your typical all inclusive...and that's what we loved about it. It was small, allowing you to get to know staff and guests. It hosts many Mexican tourists which added to its local culture. It was super clean. While the beach club is spectacular, I fell in love with the terraced garden as it held a multitude of birds. A little piece of heaven! Jenn

Stayed with my husband at this hotel for 7 nights in March. The hotel is small and charming with beautiful grounds. The room was basic but clean with a comfy bed and good AC. The location is great, close to beaches and town. Niru Beach Club is a short 6-7 minutes walk from the hotel. There is also a shuttle available, but we didn't use it. Beach club is really nice with a great pool and beautiful views of the bay. The food was okay. The lunch at Niru beach was good with plenty of choices. We were out a lot and had dinner at the hotel just once. Drinks were excellent at both the hotel and beach club. We really enjoyed the drinks at the hotel bar at night. The bartender was great( sorry, I forgot his name) Wi-Fi connection was hit and miss. Sometimes, it worked just fine and sometimes didn't work at all. That would not bother me if I didn't have to work. Overall, we enjoyed our stay and hope to return soon.

Stayed with my wife 2 weeks in March. We loved this hotel. Big thanks to Silvia the omelette lady always happy and smiling. Big thanks to Carlos, Tomas, Talia, Gabriela, Noemi, Lorenzo, Jasmin, Norberto, Nayeli y of course Sinai. They were fantastic and made our stay very pleasant. Big shout to the best bartender Abel thanks for all the Mezcalitas and to Daniel and Freddy. Of course the dancers with their great show. The beach club was fantastic. We are planning our next trip.

The resort is nice, clean & small for being 40 years old. Entertainment at night. The beach club offers a new swimming pool & restaurant upstairs at the beach. Nice view. Also a shuttle bus. Loungers for the beach & security. It’s a great area for being close to shopping & great restaurants. The workers are great & will help with questions you have. I go every year for a month.

My wife and I recently returned from two weeks at the Binni. We are older and "journeyman" vacationers, probably experiencing upward of 30 AI's and hotels in and around Mexico and the Caribbean. Not our first rodeo. The Resort. Very clean, with amazing staff, smaller. One thing immediately noticeable was the claustrophobia. With one's back to the resort looking at the pool, one sees a huge stone wall, 180 degrees. The pool was decent. Our room, "SELECT" gave us some extras, most of which we did not use. At least we had a tiny balcony. I liked the 7 am coffee delivery. The bars opened and closed, intermitedly. We would sit at the front of the hotel and watch the traffic, rather than the wall. As said, it's an older place, but still in A1 condition. Many people sitting around the pool, we didn't last long doing this. Didn't appear to be any pool side service. During the day, one hoof's it up the stairs to the snack bar for a drink. Later, that bar closes and the hotel one opens. No food there. We rarely stayed around during the day. Our room was OK. The Food. The snack bar, closing @ 5pm, is amazing. Great fries, burgers, tacos, wings and such. ALL COOKED FRESH! The food at the restaurant, opens at 7:30 pm, by our estimation was a complete bust. The only fresh cooked food being the omelets at breakfast. ..... if you can stand the wait. Great tasting, and containing some slivers of real meat. But! Oh so slow going. The rest of the pickings, supper too..... slop can fare. I won't go into too much detail, but admit the food wasn't for us, repetitive and bereft of flavor. Soon, we' like some other Canadians started eating out. We took our a la carte clothes, but could never be bothered with the dress code nonsense and late start. The Drinks. The usual, "basic" stuff, being "select" we had access to better stuff, not that we ever did. ... being so hard to find. Of course the usual blender mush was available. ............ Brings me to my my biggest bugaboo..... I only drink beer, and not that much of it too. My prior observations detected beer taps about the place, draft beer! Splendid! However the taps did not produce beer, they did look good though. Beer comes in two types, light and dark, via big bottles that sit behind the bar. Once the lid is flipped off, as per Boyle's Second Law of Effervescence, it soon becomes flat and severely unpalatable. So I bought my own, in 340 ml cans, that, most resorts serve, thus providing variety and .... "unflatness". Who would have thought. Now we are buying food and drink. The Beach Club. Playa Santa Cruz is but s short walk away, or shuttle ride, indeed a splendid and tranquil beach. Niru has a nice pool, great view and amazing staff, AND! amazingly the same two beer taps, however, these taps are actually connected to CO2 and..... yes beer, good beer. Sometimes running out at the beach. The buffet here is light years away from Binni, not that big, full of tasty delicious choices. Fresh cooked items, one day, fried chicken that tasted just like KFC. It can be done. Down the "suicide" steps, we find the beach, fine sand and loungers and chairs. The former, too low for me, and the chairs of a very curious design, the front legs, normal and spaced, the rear legs, closer together, ...... more like a three legged chair, lean back, and over you go. I did twice. We started sitting in the restaurant next door, better chairs, good service and reliable bottles of 340 ml ice cold Corona served, along with ultra delicious shrimp cocktails. Now! that's Mexico. Later the chairs at Niru were upgraded. Notwithstanding our "minor" grievances, we had a great vacation, our first at Huatulco, now we are hooked. A slower, more laid back Mexico, the greatest people imaginable. Cheap cabs and food everywhere. AND! a smaller, faster through airporto Three times we took a taxi to Playa Maguey, and adored it there, it epitomizes the antichrist of Cancun, 99% local people and laid back espousing the true local ethos. It is most certainly hot in Huatulco, ... one soon becomes acclimated and learns the good times to do things. We wouldn't stay at Binni again, it wasn't too bad, just not our cup of tea.